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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostI suppose we can't know the motive of every tweeter, but the act of tweeting while the piece is in progress suggests to me that the primary motive is not to express thanks or pass a considered judgment on what has just been heard, but to have said tweet read out? It's not so much appreciative, as vain, IMV.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by french frank View PostFar be it from me to defend such behaviour! I meant there's little harm done to anyone else provided Radio 3 doesn't waste people's time and try their patience by reading them on air. Or referring to them (as in, 'We've had floods of tweets and texts telling us how much they're enjoying our programme').
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostI should confess that at least 10 years ago I wrote in after the end of a week of CDMasters programmes which featured a daily section of recordings of lute music, to express my appreciation. But this was long before the invention of Twitter, and there was no question of my message being read out on air the following week! RC was the presenter that week, but the charming email I received in reply from a producer suggested that one of the production team was largely responsible for the playlist.
Out of interest(? ) - 7 Oct 2003:
Dear [french frank]
Many thanks for your kind words. And we certainly intend to do
programmes along similar lines again in the future.
Thanks again.
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Senior Producer
BBC Radio 3
Sadly the programme is no more ...It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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in the confessional mode: i succumbed to the allure of a short lived feature on RC's slot titled 'Evocations' by asking for a piece of music that reminded me of the landscape in autumn/winter where a very dear friend had lived and then died of a brain tumour. RC read out the request in full, including details of my friend and his death, and just played the music [slow movement from Brahms Clarinet Quintet] ... i have to say that i felt very positively about the whole thing, as if i had given my pal a public acknowledgement
i am sure that there is room for this kind of thing on a well run service - it required no faux bonhomie or personality cult, just straight talk and play the music .... i wonder if others can see the value of such a programme of 'Dedications' as opposed to top hit lists and requests for turn ons &c ... and if we must have requests, surely JRR is the model of excellence with all the requests in one programme
on one of the now defunct Jazz programmes Alyn Shipton recorded listeners' commentaries for broadcast on his surveys of the works of jazz artists and well done they were too!
in these cases there was none of the primate gossip and grooming of the 'hello' magazine sort, nor much to interest advertisers [their eyes are firmly fixated on the backside of yesterday] ... it is possible to engage with the audience via social media and audio intelligently and in the true spirit of the service - it has been done!According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
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Originally posted by Classical Fan View PostWell, thank goodness i'm not the only one who is fed up of RC talking all the time and not allowing us to just savour the work in question....I do not need to be told HOW to listen to a piece and what I should be listening out for.
If only we could have more effort and time spent on such things, rather than on telling us all about the empty emails and tweets, R3 would be so much the better!
Originally posted by Classical Fan View Post......."talking bollocks" I think the saying goes.Pacta sunt servanda !!!
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Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Posti am sure that there is room for this kind of thing on a well run service - it required no faux bonhomie or personality cult, just straight talk and play the music .... i wonder if others can see the value of such a programme of 'Dedications' as opposed to top hit lists and requests for turn ons &c ... and if we must have requests, surely JRR is the model of excellence with all the requests in one programme
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Originally posted by aeolium View PostI agree - I think there is a place for a request programme on R3, and there used to be such a programme on until it was canned 3 years ago: Radio 3 Requests presented by Chi-chi Nwanoku.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by Flay View PostI disagree. That's just what I want, someone with knowledge advising me, making sensible suggestions, encouraging further interest.
If only we could have more effort and time spent on such things, rather than on telling us all about the empty emails and tweets, R3 would be so much the better!
Your own lips have said it
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostI should confess that at least 10 years ago I wrote in after the end of a week of CDMasters programmes which featured a daily section of recordings of lute music, to express my appreciation. But this was long before the invention of Twitter, and there was no question of my message being read out on air the following week! RC was the presenter that week, but the charming email I received in reply from a producer suggested that one of the production team was largely responsible for the playlist.
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostMaybe so but do you honestly believe that Rob and Sarah have not a big chunk of influence?
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well with regard to 'Dedications' or something like it, those of us who do not adhere to any theist doctrines &c and have no faith in supernatural beings of any sort nor their prophets on this earth might quite prefer one day a week displacing evensong with some kind of humanist inspired programme ....
Dedication is not the same as In Memoriam .... it could be quite explicitly about current and future positive humanist issues events people &c ....According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
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